A Portuguese Love

Check more photos here !  Hello Zazzlers and friends! What about some modern art to start your Sunday? Portuguese Joana de Vasconcelos Palace de Versailles 2012 Exhibition topped the ranking of the five most visited shows in Paris in the past 50 years with 1.6 million visitors according to Figaro La folie des expos article. It was open between June 19 - September 30, 2012, and consisted of 15 pieces of contemporary art. Joana's work is anchored in Portuguese traditional culture with a modern twist. She was born in Paris in 1971, but she lives and works in Lisbon. Be sure to look at those photos!

Today I bring you Alexandre Farto's artwork. Maybe you have heard a lot about street artist Banksy. Now it's time you meet Vhils. He's Portuguese. Curious? Right! Check Vhils site and you'll be amazed by what he has already created. Read what Lazarides Gallery wrote about him: Our youngest artist, the already prolific Portuguese-born Alexandre Farto's range spans from collage to portraiture. Of late he's taken to creating works purely from in situ materials, taking Vandalism as art to its logical ad absurdum conclusion. Advertising hoardings are torn to make fresh images, and plaster drilled away at until the remaining relief forms the work. He is, at the time of writing, experimenting with a cocktail of Quink ink and household bleach. But this is a long way from brutalism. Vhils art is poetic, complex, and ambitious, often focusing on the needs we have abandoned in favor of our wants, and the realization that trading pleasure back in for happines...

T his small painting "Beard the guise head," an oil on a card (24.5 X19 cm) Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso painted in 1916 was sold for 122,000 euros (170,000 USD) in an auction of Modern and Contemporary Art in Lisbon. The bid came on the phone. Other renowned Portuguese artists of the twentieth century as Abel Salazar, Graça Morais, Menez, Arpad Szenes, Vieira da Silva, and Cesariny, among others, were also represented. Amadeo de Souza-Cardozo was born in 1887 and died in 1918. He had no opportunity to see his work recognized. A precursor of modern art died prematurely at age 31. He just knew the incomprehension of others towards his art. At 19 he moved to Paris taking his first contact with Impressionism, then Expressionism and Cubism. He was a friend of Amadeo Modigliani and they shared a studio and hold exhibitions together in 1911. After attending an exhibition in the United States in 1913 he returned to Portugal where he causes a scandal with his exhibitions respecti...

Travel+Leisure picked the 16th most beautiful railway station in the world. S. Bento's Oporto railway station made the list. You know, a list is just a list made by people. But most buildings picked are really awesome. You can check it here . "While the exterior is certainly beautiful—and brings to mind 19th-century Parisian architecture with its mansard roof and stone façade—it is the front hall that will make you gasp. The walls are covered with 20,000 splendid azulejo tin-glazed ceramic tiles, which took 11 years for artist Jorge Colaço to complete."

Tiles in Mercado de Forno do Tijolo, Lisboa.

Found three photos I took in the Summer. This exhibition was on display in our public garden for maybe two or three months. I think these fish were painted by children with some help from local plastic artists.